Holding means for rail-anchors.



B. WOLHAUPTER.

HOLDING MEANS FOR- RAlL ANCHORS.

APPLICATION FlLED OCT. 28. me

I ,956& Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

WITNESS .9

BENJAMIN WOIJHAUPTER, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

HOLDING MEANS FOR BAIL-ANGHORS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 25, 1919.

Application flied October 28, 1918. Serial No. 259,988.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN WoLnApP- ran, citizen of the United States, residmg at New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented adjustment or reapplication without injury to itself or to the rail.

In connection with this primary object of fastening an anchor upon a rail in such a manner that it may be readil removed and replaced, the invention specia ly has in view a novel holding means for rail anchors possessing special utility as a rail anchor lock. That is, a holding means which operates ef fectually to lock, upon a rail, the separate parts of a rail anchor of thetype having a frictional clamping engagement upon the rail, whereby the anchor parts are maintained permanently in operative relation gripping the rail regardless of contraction and ex ansion of the rail, and regardless of the condition of the ballast. At the same time, even in such application of the invention to anchors" of the rail clamping type, the improved holding and locking means performs the function of being readily fracturable to permit of the release of the anchor from the rail whenever required without injury to the rail or to the anchor.

Accordingly, one of the distinctive ob ects ofthe invention is to provide a railanchor holding means possessing special utility in its application to that class of rail anchors which have a frictional clamping engagement with therail flange, such clamplng engagement being effected by a wedge or other mechanical movement. types of rail anchors having a clamping engagement or clamping act1on upon the rall flanges the creeping of the rail in the direc- In the prevailing tion of trafic is checked by having some part of the anchor provided with a bearm member or projection adapted to engage t e vertical face of a tie as an abutment. This bearing member or projection also usually extends a distance'below the rail bottom so that under ordinary service conditlons the same will be deeply embedded in the ballast, and so tightly in fact, especially when the ballast is frozen, that it is impossible for the said bearing member or projection to move back from the tie because of the resistance of the ballast. Accordingly, under conditions where the rail, due to expansion or contractionor to wheel and load forces, moves backward in a direction away from the anchor abutment face of the tie the members of the anchor frictionally clamped upon therail will necessarily be affected by such movement. That is to say, the frictionally clamped anchor member having no tie abutting member will be carried'. with the run ning rail, but the other member of the anchor will be held fast by the projecting tie abutting member engaged in the ballast, especially if the ballast is frozen. The result of this action would be the loosening of the engagement between the anchoring members themselves so that the device thus loosens its grip upon the rail flange and consequently becomes useless as an agent to check the creeping of the rail.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a novel and efi'ective means for overcoming the above described undesirable actions particularly in those ty es of rail anchors adapted to be frictiona ly clamped or gripped upon the rail flange by a mechanicahmovement and one of the members of which anchors has a tie abutting member promoting into the ballast. In that connectlOIl' the invention contemplates a holding or locking means for the anchor comprising a novel form of welded connection between the rail and the part of the anchor to be secured thereto. This welded connection is of such a character that any of the conventional welding processes may be employed to make the same and Whiclfwelded connection is also of such a character and strength as to be entirely sufficient to over: come the resistance of the ballast in a retrograde movement of the rail, while also capawill be apparent to those familiar with the art without further description, the invention consists in the novel anchor holding means herein illustrated, described and claimed and though susceptible of a wide range of modification, and of application to different forms of anchors, certain preferred and practical embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a sectional .plan view of a rail anchor of the rail flange clamping type having the tie engaging member held or locked in place by means of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the type of anchor shown in Fig. 1 and illustrating its operative relation to a rail to the tie and to the ballast.

Like references designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

As already indicated the present invention is not limited in its application to any particular type or construction of anchor. Primarily, it consists of providing an anchor member, or anchoring element, witha plurality of relatively small projecting tongues or lugs arranged in spaced relation and adapted singly to be fastened to a convenient part of the rail by a welded connection sufliciently strong to positively hold the anchor in o erative connection and yet readily fractura le to admit of the breaking of the welded connection or of the tongue itself without injury to the rail or to the anchor. The improved holding or lockin means above described is well exemplifie by the application of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. Referring to these figures of the drawings it will be observed that the same illustrate a rail clam ing or gripping anchor of the type which includes the oppositely arranged rail flange engaging jaws or member 1 and'2 having a slidlng interlocking wedge connection 3 which operates as a mechanical movement, when a maul or driving pressure is applied to one of the anchor members to cause both of the same to be driven into tightfrictional clamping engagement with the opposite rail flanges. This type of anchor is now more or less conventional and further detailed description thereof seems unnecessary except reference 65 to the feature of one of the anchor members ties. And, ordinarily, this downwardly promemes (1) having formed integrally therewith a tie engaging bearing member or projection & adapted to -have a wide and extended hearing against the vertical face of one of the jecting tie engaging member 4 extends sufficiently below the rail base to be rather deeply embedded in the ballast of the road bed.

In applying the invention to the type of anchor shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings the anchor member or jaw l carrying the tie engaging bearing member 4: is provided with a p ura-lity of relatively small welding tongues 0r lugs 5, 6, 7 8 and 9. These weld- 3o ing tongues or lugs may be variously disposed, such for instance as at the end and. side edges of that part of the anchor member'which overlies the rail flange and are spaced at suitable positions apart so as to be in non-interfering locations and readily available for single or individual use. Thus, it will now be seen that with the anchor member carrying .the tie abutting bearing member 4 provided with a plurality of spaced relatively small welding tongues or projections the object of the invention may be achieved by fastening or looking one of these tongues, for instance the tongue 5 to the rail flange by a welded connection 10. This welded connection may be made by any welding process such forinstance as the oxy-acetylene method, and by the formation of a fillet weld or other kind of weld. With the rail anchor member 1 locked or held by the welded connection 10, as described, it will be obvious that when the rail runs in a direction away from the anchor abutting face of the tie both of the rail clamping members of the anchor will be carried along with the rail so that the operative relation between the anchor members will always be' maintained regardless of therunning of the rail, from any cause, in either direction. And, whenever it is desired or necessary to 110 release the anchor it is only necessary to fracture or break the lug 5 itself to admit of the usual removal operation in the ordinary way.

' In the course of using the same anchor a 115 -number of times for purposes of readjust ment with reference to the tie and rail or for re-apphcation in new locations it is only necessary to successively bring into use the geparate welding tongues or lugs 6, 7, 8,

tion.

I claim 1. A rail anchor .having a relatively small welding tongue.

2. A rail anchor having a relatively small projecting welding tongue.

3. A rail anchor havin a relatively small projecting severable wel ing tongue.

4. A rail anchor having a plurality of relatively small Welding tongues.

5. A rail anchor having a plurality of relatively small spaced welding tongues.

6. A rail anchor having a plurality of relatively small projectin welding tongues distributed in separated i ocations to admit of independent use.

7. A rail anchor structure including in combination with the rail, an anchor member having a plurality of spaced welding projections and a welded connection between one of said projections and the rail.

8. A rail anchor structure including in combination with the rail, an anchor member, and a severable lock between the rail and the anchor member consisting of an integral welding projection on the member 25 and a welded connection between said projection and the rail.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN WOLHAUPTER.

Witnesses: Y

S. C. ADAMS, C. WILSON. 

